Salek Benedikt

Benedikt was born in the industrial town of Łódź, Poland on 17 October 1925.

Benedikt was a member of a group of Holocaust survivors known as the Boys, despite the fact the group consisted of over 200 girls. 

The Boys were teenage and child-Holocaust survivors, who were brought to the UK after World War II for rest and rehabilitation.

Members of the Boys were held in Nazi labour and concentration camps and used as slave labourers. They had also survived World War II in hiding or as lone children.

Photograph of Salek Benedikt in Kloster Indersdorf, Germany in 1945.
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Abraham Beil

Beil was born in 1929 in Krosno, in south-eastern Poland.

Beil was a member of a group of Holocaust survivors known as the Boys, despite the fact the group consisted of over 200 girls. 

The Boys were teenage and child-Holocaust survivors, who were brought to the UK after World War II for rest and rehabilitation.

Members of the Boys were held in Nazi labour and concentration camps and used as slave labourers, survived World War II in hiding or a lone children.

Photograph of Abraham Beil In Windermere 1945.
Abraham Beil In Windermere 1945.
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Martin Baumel

Baumel was born on 6 January 1931. He grew up in the town of Dęblin-Irena, not far from Lublin, in what is now eastern Poland.

Baumel was a member of a group of Holocaust survivors known as the Boys, despite the fact the group consisted of over 200 girls. 

The Boys were teenage and child-Holocaust survivors, who were brought to the UK after World War II for rest and rehabilitation.

Members of the Boys were held in Nazi labour and concentration camps and used as slave labourers. They had also survived World War II in hiding or as lone children.

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Jacob Banach

Banach was born in Nowe Brzesko in southern Poland in 1929.

Banach was a member of a group of Holocaust survivors known as the Boys, despite the fact the group consisted of over 200 girls. 

The Boys were teenage and child-Holocaust survivors, who were brought to the UK after World War II for rest and rehabilitation.

Members of the Boys were held in Nazi labour and concentration camps and used as slave labourers. They had also survived World War II in hiding or as lone children.

Jacob Banach in Windermere 1945
Jacob Banach in Windermere 1945
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William Auspitz

Auspitz was born in the northeastern Hungarian city of Nyíregyháza on 28 June 1930.

Auspitz was a member of a group of Holocaust survivors known as the Boys, despite the fact the group consisted of over 200 girls. 

The Boys were teenage and child-Holocaust survivors, who were brought to the UK after World War II for rest and rehabilitation.

Members of the Boys were held in Nazi labour and concentration camps and used as slave labourers. They had also survived World War II in hiding or as lone children.

Photograph of William Auspitz in Kloster Indersdorf, Germany in 1945.

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Artek Poznanski

Poznanski was born in Praska in Poland in 1928.

Poznanski was a member of a group of Holocaust survivors known as the Boys, despite the fact the group consisted of over 200 girls. 

The Boys were teenage and child-Holocaust survivors, who were brought to the UK after World War II for rest and rehabilitation.

Members of the Boys were held in Nazi labour and concentration camps and used as slave labourers, survived World War II in hiding or as lone children.

Photograph of Artek Poznanski in 1948.

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Wolfgang ‘Sinai’ Adler

Sinai Adler was born in Prague into a religious family who had produced generations of rabbis.

Adler was a member of a group of Holocaust survivors known as the Boys, despite the fact the group consisted of over 200 girls. 

The Boys were teenage and child-Holocaust survivors, who were brought to the UK after World War II for rest and rehabilitation.

Members of the Boys were held in Nazi labour and concentration camps and used as slave labourers. They had also survived World War II in hiding or as lone children.

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Harry Suskin

Suskin was born Hersch Zyskind in Piotrków, Poland in 1931. 

Suskin was a member of a group of Holocaust survivors known as the Boys, despite the fact the group consisted of over 200 girls. 

The Boys were teenage and child-Holocaust survivors, who were brought to the UK after World War II for rest and rehabilitation.

Members of the Boys were held in Nazi labour and concentration camps and used as slave labourers. They had also survived World War II in hiding or as lone children.

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Aron Zylberszac

Zylberszac was born on 10 August 1927 in Łódź, Poland. 

Zylberszac was a member of a group of Holocaust survivors known as the Boys, despite the fact the group consisted of over 200 girls. 

The Boys were teenage and child-Holocaust survivors, who were brought to the UK after World War II for rest and rehabilitation.

Members of the Boys were held in Nazi labour and concentration camps and used as slave labourers, survived World War II in hiding or as lone children.

Aron Zylbersac in Windermere 1945
Aron Zylberszac in Windermere 1945
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Julek Zylberger

Zylberger was born in the Polish industrial city of Łódź in 1929.

Zylberger was a member of a group of Holocaust survivors known as the Boys, despite the fact the group consisted of over 200 girls. 

The Boys were teenage and child-Holocaust survivors, who were brought to the UK after World War II for rest and rehabilitation.

Members of the Boys were held in Nazi labour and concentration camps and used as slave labourers. They had also survived World War II in hiding or as lone children.

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